Chapter 5
The street where Brad’s mother lived could only be called affluent. Justin glanced around the San Marino neighborhood of Pasadena as Brad parallel parked his compact car at the curb directly across the street from Doctor Callahan’s house.
The houses along the narrow tree-lined street were not newly built tract homes. They were homes built in the nineteen forties or nineteen fifties. They were similar to the Hollywood mansions of old. Large, imposing and full of extravagant personality. Brad’s mother had a Victorian house painted in various shades of purple.
The house on the right had been styled after the Parthenon although it had been recently painted yellow. Justin grimaced. The house on the left had been made to look like a California mission.
Justin cleared his throat. “T
